Month: September 2017

Ronaldo, Bale lift Madrid by Dortmund; Liverpool held to draw as Man City win

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Cristiano Ronaldo added two goals after Gareth Bale’s opener to help Real Madrid beat Borussia Dortmund 3-1 in Champions League Group H on Tuesday. Dortmund should have been handed a penalty in the 14th minute when Maximilian Philipp’s was pushed off the line with the help of Sergio Ramos’ hands, but the defenders part in the clearance went unseen. And four minutes later, Bale had Madrid in front when he calmly met Dani Carvajal’s cross and volleyed it into the back of the net, leaving Dortmund keeper Roman Burki no chance. Bale then delivered a…

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U.S. to end Russian military flights over America

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U.S. officials are preparing to announce restrictions to Russian military flights over American territory under the Treaty on Open Skies in the latest sign of strain in U.S.-Russia relations. The treaty, part of a suite of arms-control, transparency and confidence-building agreements that proliferated in the late stages of the Cold War, permits its 34 ratified member states to conduct observation flights over each other’s territory while capturing aerial imagery of military personnel and materiel. Treaty-related tensions intensified over two days in August, when a Russian plane operating under Open Skies…

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CAC crashes cost of business registration

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The Registrar-General, Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), Mr. Bello Mahmud, said on Tuesday in Abuja that the cost of business registration in Nigeria was now cheaper and its process simplified to enable small entrepreneurs to register their businesses. Muhmud announced this in a statement by Head, Public Affairs, CAC, Mr Godfrey Ike. Muhmud disclosed this while addressing the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME) Clinic. He said that with the Company Registration Portal (CRP), any member of the public could now register businesses on-line at the comfort of their homes and…

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Saudi women can now drive cars

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Saudi women will now be allowed to drive cars, Saudi King Salman ordered on Tuesday. The order ended a conservative tradition seen by rights activists as an emblem of the Islamic kingdom’s repression of women. The kingdom, the birthplace of Islam, has been widely criticized for being the only country in the world that bans women from driving, despite gradual improvement on some women’s issues in recent years and ambitious government targets to increase their public role, especially in the workforce. Despite trying to cultivate a more modern image in recent…

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Senate, South East governors to meet Buhari over agitations

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Reports say that the leadership of the Senate and governors from South East are to meet President Muhammadu Buhari on ways to resolve the crises emanating from the series of ethnic agitations. The senators’ resolve to meet with the executive was reached on Tuesday at its resumption after eight-week recess. The meeting is to cement the agreement by South East and northern senators on their position on agitation for Biafra. Senate President Bukola Saraki read out the summary of the outcome of the meeting, stating that “At about 12.30 pm, we concluded…

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Nobody at Real Madrid doubts Cristiano Ronaldo – Carvajal

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Real Madrid defender Dani Carvajal has said “nobody doubts” Cristiano Ronaldo as he heads into his 400th game for the club on the back of a frustrating run of form. Ronaldo has yet to score in La Liga this season, having missed the first four games through suspension and had 18 unsuccessful shots in the recent games against Real Betis and Alaves. Madrid travel to Borussia Dortmund for a Champions League game on Wednesday — Ronaldo’s 400th game — and speaking at the prematch news conference, Carvajal said: “Nobody doubts…

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Why you should never use the unlock pattern to secure you Android phone

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An Android unlock patterne not as secure as PIN codes and fingerprint scanners and can be easily copied, new research has revealed. A new study which compared the different systems used to unlock smartphones found that someone with little technical know how could copy the Android unlock pattern, even from a distance of up to two meters. The study was carried out by researchers at the US Naval Academy and the University of Maryland Baltimore County who found that passcodes are far more secure than unlock patterns. The researchers said that…

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Apple switches from Bing to Google for Siri web search

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Apple’s Siri has always used Microsoft’s Bing search engine until now. Earlier this week the tech giant announced that they were switching to Google search immediately. Users may have noticed that when you ask the voice assistant a question, the results are now from Google with a button to get additional results from Google. Speaking to TechCrunch an Apple presentative said, “Switching to Google as the web search provider for Siri, Search within iOS and Spotlight on Mac will allow these services to have a consistent web search experience with the default…

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Youths told to harness their talent and make Bayelsa proud

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THE Bayelsa State government has called on the youths to work on their God-given innate talent to earn a genuine living and also to make the state proud at home and abroad. Government averred that hooliganism, cultism and brigandage lifestyle would jeopardize their freedom and end them in jail. The Government spoke through the Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Hon Jonathan Obuebite in Yenagoa. Obuebite, posited that government charge was predicated on the feat achieved by describing the emergence of IDYL as the winner of the recently concluded singing competition,…

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Kaduna IRS generates N16bn from January to August

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Malam Mukhtar Ahmed, the Executive Chairman, Kaduna State Internal Revenue Service ( KDIRS ), says the state generated N15.7 billion as Internally Generated Revenue ( IGR ) from January to August. He made the disclosure on Tuesday in Kaduna in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). He spoke on the sideline of an interactive session on the new tax law KDIRS held with members of the business community. The chairman expressed confidence that the service would realise between 60 to 70 per cent of the N50.2 billion…

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